More on the SEP in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: SEP public meeting to demand inquiry into party member’s disappearance
March 30, 2007
The Socialist Equality Party is calling a public meeting in Colombo on April 9 to demand that the Sri Lankan government and military launch an urgent investigation into the disappearance of party memb...
Sri Lankan defence ministry stalls on inquiry into missing SEP member
By our correspondent, March 28, 2007
Today marks the seventh day since the disappearance of Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party (SEP) member, Nadarajah Wimaleswaran and his friend, Sivanathan Mathivathanan, both residents of the northern...
Sri Lankan police drag out their inquiries into the murder of SEP supporter
By by Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), January 19, 2007
More than five months after the murder of Socialist Equality Party (SEP) supporter Sivapragasam Mariyadas in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Mullipothana, the police investigation has failed to identif...
SEP writes to Sri Lankan attorney general to demand inquiry into supporter’s murder
By our reporter, September 25, 2006
Socialist Equality Party General Secretary Wije Dias wrote to the Sri Lankan Attorney General K.C. Kamalasabeyson on September 19 vigorously protesting over the lack of a proper police inquiry into th...
After the Sri Lankan election: what next for the working class?
By Wije Dias, November 22, 2005
The following statement was written by Wije Dias, who was the candidate for the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in the November 17 presidential election in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan election: SEP opposes disenfranchisement of voters in LTTE areas
By Wije Dias, March 30, 2004
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) strongly condemns the decision by the Sri Lankan election commissioner not to establish polling booths for the voters living in areas of the North and East under the...
Final public meeting for SEP election campaign in Sri Lanka
March 25, 2004
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka is holding a public meeting in Colombo on March 29 to conclude its general election campaign. Under Sri Lankan election regulations, all public campaign...
Sri Lankan police drag out hearings over LTTE’s threats against SEP
By Nanda Wickremesinghe, February 20, 2003
Despite continuing threats by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) against members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) on Kayts Island in northern Sri Lanka, three court cases earlier this mo...
Further international protests against LTTE death threats
By K. Ratnayake, October 17, 2002
The World Socialist Web Site has received a steady stream of letters from around the world protesting the death threats made by local officials from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) against...
Sabaratnam Rasendran 1947—2002
Veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist dies in Colombo
By Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), March 2, 2002
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) announces the death of comrade Sabaratnam Rasendran with profound sorrow. Rasendran died at the Chest Hospital in Welisara, Sri Lanka, of pneumonia and lung abscess ...
A socialist platform for the 2001 Sri Lankan election
By by Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), November 23, 2001
The Socialist Equality Party is fielding a slate of 24 candidates in the Colombo district to advance a socialist solution to the ever-deepening social and economic disaster confronting ordinary workin...
Campaign to free Hatton six
Sri Lankan prison officials refuse to release two detainees freed by court
By Vilani Peiris, August 14, 2001
More than a month after a high court in Kandy ordered the release of four Tamil detainees, prison authorities in Sri Lanka are openly flouting the decision and holding two of them on the flimsiest of ...
